Printing system for suppressing wasteful transmission of notification information

Abstract

A communication system and a control method are provided, which are capable of suppressing wasteful transmission of notification information. To this end, in a case where predetermined information is not received despite that notification information has been transmitted, this problem is solved by providing an information processing apparatus having a control unit configured to perform control so that the notification information is not transmitted anew.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. A control method of an information processing apparatus and a terminal apparatus, the control method comprising:
 transmitting notification information to the terminal apparatus; 
 receiving predetermined information from the terminal apparatus, wherein the predetermined information is transmitted from the terminal apparatus to the information processing apparatus in a case where a notification based on the transmitted notification information is displayed on the terminal apparatus by a predetermined application program installed in the terminal apparatus; and 
 determining, based on a number of times of reception of the predetermined information, whether the information processing apparatus transmits new notification information. 
 
     
     
       2. The control method according to  claim 1 , wherein
 in a case where a ratio of the number of times of reception of the predetermined information to a number of times of transmission of the notification information is smaller than a predetermined threshold value, it is determined that the information processing apparatus does not transmit the new notification information. 
 
     
     
       3. The control method according to  claim 1  wherein,
 the predetermined information is not transmitted from the terminal apparatus in a case where the predetermined application program is not installed in the terminal apparatus. 
 
     
     
       4. The control method according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the predetermined information is not transmitted from the terminal apparatus in a case where the notification by the predetermined application program is not permitted by a setting application for performing setting of the terminal apparatus. 
 
     
     
       5. The control method according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the predetermined information is not transmitted from the terminal apparatus in a case where a power saving setting is validated in the terminal apparatus. 
 
     
     
       6. The control method according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the predetermined information is not transmitted from the terminal apparatus in a case where the predetermined application program installed in the terminal apparatus is not activated in the terminal apparatus. 
 
     
     
       7. The control method according to  claim 1 , further comprising:
 performing control so that transmission of the new notification information is resumed in a case where specific information has been received from the terminal apparatus in a state where the new notification information is not transmitted. 
 
     
     
       8. The control method according to  claim 7 , wherein
 the specific information is transmitted from the terminal apparatus in a case where the predetermined application program has been installed in the terminal apparatus. 
 
     
     
       9. The control method according to  claim 7 , wherein
 the specific information is transmitted from the terminal apparatus in a case where the notification by the predetermined application program has been permitted by a setting application for performing setting of the terminal apparatus. 
 
     
     
       10. The control method according to  claim 7 , wherein
 the specific information is transmitted from the terminal apparatus in a case where a power saving setting has been invalidated in the terminal apparatus. 
 
     
     
       11. The control method according to  claim 7 , wherein
 the specific information is transmitted from the terminal apparatus in a case where the predetermined application program installed in the terminal apparatus has been activated in the terminal apparatus. 
 
     
     
       12. The control method according to  claim 1 , further comprising:
 transmitting information for performing another kind of notification in the terminal apparatus, which is different from notification based on the notification information, in a case where it is determined that the information processing apparatus does not transmit the new notification information. 
 
     
     
       13. The control method according to  claim 12 , wherein
 the another kind of notification is notification for prompting a user to install the predetermined application. 
 
     
     
       14. The control method according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the notification information is information relating to a printing apparatus outside the information processing apparatus and outside the terminal apparatus. 
 
     
     
       15. The control method according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the predetermined application is an application for causing a printing apparatus to perform printing. 
 
     
     
       16. The control method according to  claim 1 , wherein
 transmission of the new notification information is performed in a case where an importance level of a transmission-target notification information is higher than a threshold value even though it is determined that the information processing apparatus does not transmit the new notification information. 
 
     
     
       17. The control method according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the transmission of the notification information is performed with a push notification. 
 
     
     
       18. The control method according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the notification information is transmitted to the terminal apparatus via a communication apparatus which is different from the information processing apparatus. 
 
     
     
       19. An information processing apparatus, comprising:
 a transmission unit configured to transmit notification information to a terminal apparatus; 
 a reception unit configured to receive predetermined information from the terminal apparatus, wherein the predetermined information is transmitted from the terminal apparatus to the information processing apparatus in a case where a notification based on the transmitted notification information is displayed on the terminal apparatus by a predetermined application program installed in the terminal apparatus; and 
 a control unit configured to determine, based on a number of times of reception of the predetermined information, whether the information processing apparatus transmits new notification information.